In the 1930s Otto Warburg won a Nobel Prize for an observation that has since become known as “the Warburg effect” in oncology. He had reported that most cancer cells predominantly produce energy by a high rate of glycolysis (sugar metabolism) rather than the low rate in most normal cells. The energy in cancer cells, […]
I vividly recall the most unexpected reaction I got when I told a friend that we were pregnant with our daughter. He asked me not to mention it in front of his wife. He explained that she was in the midst of an emotional crisis. Their attempts to conceive had been unsuccessful, and the doctors […]
Posted on Child Health and Safety on January 13, 2015 was an announcement that vaccines had been proven to cause sudden death in children (SIDS). The announcement indicated that death in 67 cases was only explicable as caused by vaccines. Drug safety regulators were said to have had the information for over two years. In […]
When we think of genetics, of DNA, we think of something fixed or hardwired. This has been the predominant dogma of the last century and still is to some extent. Contrary to our rather deterministic expectations, however, DNA is not the immutable blue print for health and disease that we once thought. It is quite […]
I seldom watch television but for some reason nearly every time I do, the same commercial pops up. It goes something like this: a couple of women are sitting on a bench, chatting, when a guy walks up to them and asks if they have T2D (the answer is “yes”) and then he asks if […]
I had a recent email from a 38-year-old lawyer to thank me for a treatment that was given to her when she was eight years of age. I do not know what prompted her to try to contact me after 38 years, but her story has to be of general interest because it is so […]
This story was originally posted as a five part series on our site in 2011-2012 when the healthcare debate began heating up. As the debates over healthcare in general and women’s healthcare in particular have resurfaced once again, it is important to remember that these decisions have human consequences.The treatment this woman received was sub-par by any […]
If you are reading this, you might be thinking to yourself, “there she goes again, writing about some arcane medical condition that few can pronounce much less define” or “why in the world would I need to know about pseudotumor cerebri?” Well, let me tell you. If you are a woman who uses a progestin […]